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Lockdown: Senses - An uplifting story for much needed encouragement

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2020 5:45pm
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Camarotes

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I am not the author of this, but it was sent to me by a member of the Anglican Chaplaincy of Costa Almeria and Costa Calida, who normally worships at Aljambra Chapel, Albox.

To appreciate this fully, any who are not in Spain at present need to be aware of the current conditions in that nobody is permitted to leave their house for the purpose of taking exercise, but only for one person alone to go for essential shopping, for medication, for fuel, or to exercise a pet, no more than once per day, with severe fines for any breach of these rules.

Lockdown: Senses

I went for a walk today.  I’m lucky.  I can do that - because I have a dog.

A walk.  A one-foot-in-front-of-the-other positive step at a comfortable pace;

  simple freedom from the ‘around-the-home shuffle’ of confinement.

Bliss.

It was raining.  It didn’t matter.

The soft, gentle drizzle feeling like a moist kiss brushing my cheek.

I met no-one; saw no vehicles; encountered no movement.

And then I heard it - and was momentarily startled !

Silence.

I heard the silence. Pure ,unadulterated silence. 

I paused my step, selfishly allowing myself to be embraced by it for a few

  indulgent seconds.

My nostrils twitched almost instantly.  What was that smell? 

Orange blossom !  Hanging over the fence of a garden.  Beautiful !

I stood for a moment,staring at the star-shaped petals; the moist air glazing them

  such that they glistened in the gloomy daylight, almost in competition with their

  night-time friends.

Fragmented extracts of long-forgotten poems nudged my memory “....what is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare....”

Then I looked down at the verges lining the single strip of tarmac road along

  which I’d walked, and saw the glowing bright yellow of the daisies and shamrocks, their

  faces turned upward, seeming to implore the life-giving water to fall on them alone, to

  quench their individual thirsts.

Suddenly my ears were alerted – noise?  Noise in this silence?  What..? Where..?

Up there !  There on the cable wires.! A row of tweeting birds, ruffling their feathers, taking a refreshing shower in this long-awaited free gift from the heavens. !

“We’re still here” they seemed to tell me, “all but drowned in the noise of your life, yet we’re still here”.

And so it was that, feeling fulfilled by creation; my inner-self calmed by silence; my body naturally-anointed ; and with childhood tunes touching my tongue “...each little flower that opens, each little bird that sings...” ,...... the dog and I walked home.


Tyoga66

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 8:05am

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Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 8:05am

Beautiful ! 

janboon

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 9:06am

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Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 9:06am

What a lovely way to start Saturday morning. That was just beautiful,so uplifting and cheerful.Thank you so much for taking the time to write and post. Jan ☺

aileenc

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 9:59am

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Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 9:59am

Wonderful

Maggiep

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 11:05am

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Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 11:05am

That is lovely. Makes you appreciate the beauty around You.

Thank you for sharing xx

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Jen jen

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 11:23am

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Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 11:23am

Well after reading that I'm off to do the same! Good thing I've got dogs too.

That was really nice

Enjoy peeps

JJ

Calico

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 1:50pm

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Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 1:50pm

Anyone knows about trucks coming into neighborhoods and spraying stuff on everything?

Maggiep

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 3:07pm

Maggiep

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Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 3:07pm

Calico wrote on Sat Mar 28, 2020 1:50pm:

Anyone knows about trucks coming into neighborhoods and spraying stuff on everything?

Need some here in the uk, spraying the ignorant idiots who ignore calls for not going out. Obviously they think it doesn’t apply to them x

NannieH

Posted: Wed Apr 1, 2020 1:30pm

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Posted: Wed Apr 1, 2020 1:30pm

A long time ago we viewed a beautiful property in Corfe Castle in Dorset.....which we did buy.....but when we got out of the car, my husband grabbed my arm and said...'listen'....I listened but after a while I said...'I can't hear anything!'.....He just looked at me and smiled and said....'exactly'. Have never forgotton how beautiful 'nothing' is....

Camarotes

Posted: Wed Apr 1, 2020 4:30pm

Camarotes

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Posted: Wed Apr 1, 2020 4:30pm

Calico wrote on Sat Mar 28, 2020 1:50pm:

Anyone knows about trucks coming into neighborhoods and spraying stuff on everything?

Cantoria Council arranged to disinfect the whole area on March 26th, spraying disinfectant with a machine that looked and sounded like a jet engine.  Details were posted on the Cantoria Facebook page and can be seen at;

https://www.facebook.com/102724479781965/photos/a.292750154112729/2750705601650493/?type=3&theater

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